Improved coffin



described.

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Leners Parmi: No. 83,964, dated November 1o, 186s. I

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The Schedule referred to in thm Letters Patent and makingv pan: of the same To all lwhmn it may concern.-

Be it known that I, FRANCIS H.HILL, of Chicago, in the county of Cook, and State of Illinois, have irlvented a new and useful lImprovement in O oiiins; and I do hereby declare and make known that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and the letters and figures marked thereon, which form part of this specification.

My said invention relates to the manner of arranging the face-glass of cofiins,and it consists in havinga separate movable frame for the glass, which is so constructed and arranged in the opening in the top of the coffin in which it lits, that it ,may be depressed and moved back in a suitable slide or groove beneath the lid of the coin, so as to open the coiiin; or, said frame for the glass can be opened upward, as upon a hinge, for the same purpose, .-thus enabling the con to v be opened at the head to give access to the face of the corpse, without removing the glass from the opening or frame in which it is set.

To enable those skilled in the art to understand how to construct and use my saidinvention, I will proceed to describe the same with -particularity, making reference in so doing to the aforesaid drawings, in which- Figure 1 represents a plan or top view of my invention;

Figure 2 is a central longitudinal vertical section thereof;

-Figure 3 is a' bottom view of the lid, with its atltachments; and

l Figure 4 is a detached view of framecontaining the g ass.

Similar letters of reference in the several iigures denote the same partsof my said invention.

A represents the top or lid of the coffin, having an opening of suitable shape therein, near the head, into which a movable frame, B, is closely fitted, containing a glass, B', as shown.

The said frame B is provided upon each side, at the lower end, with short pins or lugs, marked d d, and near the middle of each side with two similar lugs or pins, marked d' d', as shown in iig. 4.v

In the sides ofthe opening in thev lid A', which receives the frameB, are slots, ff, as shown in'g. l, to receive said lugs d'd, which slots or grooves curve, as shown in fig. 2, and connect withthe grooves c parallel with the lid, and beneath the same, said grooves being cut or formed in the inner faces of the bars D secured to the` under side of thelid, as shown in E E represent two springs, secured at one end properly to theI lid, or to blocks F, attached thereto; the other ends of said springs lying beneath the frame B, and supporting the same as shown, and as hereinafter 0 represents a bar, arranged beneath the lid at the head, upon which the end ofthe frame B is supported when' adjusted in the aperture in the lid, so as to close the Collin, as shown in iig. 2.

A screw or pin, b, is Yprovided with a horizontal lip, b', which can be turned-into a recess in the end of the frame B, to lock it firmly in place, but can be turnedH back 'to unlock the said frame when it is desired tf; open the same upwards.

In the side-bars D D, containing the aforesaid grooves c c, at the heel of the frame B, there are vertical slots, c' c', opening up from said grooves c c, as'shown in iig. 2.

vThe rear lugs d (l lie in said vertical grooves, c c', and the central lugs d d in the vertical grooves f j, when the frame B is adjusted in place, as shown in iigs.'1 and 2, the springs E E holding said frame up in position. A

When it is desired-.to open the aperture-in the coiiinlid, the rear end of the frame is depressed until the lugs dd move down into the grooves c c, when said frame may be moved back beneath the lid, the lugs d d sliding in the grooves c e, 'and the lugs d d passing down the curve of f f into the said -`grooves c c, as

clearly shown in iig. 2, the springs E E yielding to permit such adjustment. v

Whenthe. aperture is closed the frame B is'rnoved forwarduntil the lugs d and d come to the grooves c antif, when the springs E E throw the frame up into place, and the lock b l1' is turned to secure the same as desired.

. The said removable frame, if desired, can be unlocked and opened upward, as indicated by the dotted lines in g. 2, turning upon "the lugs c ld as upon a hinge.

When this mode of opening the frame is employed, any other species of hinge may be used, and the provisions for permitting the sliding of the frame may be omitted, and also the springs E E may be dispensed with. In such case, the lugs d' d upon p the frame B are of no practical necessity. Or the construction and arrangement of-the frame and its attachments maybe such, that the frame may be moved back beneath the lid, and opened upwards, as described and shown.V Or it may have such construction as will enable 'the frame to slide back under the lid only, and have no movement upward upon a hinge.

A' represents a movable cover, pivoted to the lid at a', so that it may be turned or moved around from the position indicated in the drawings, over the glass and its frame, to cover and protect the same.

When the frame B is removed from the opening, by sliding the same back beneath the lid, or when it is moved forward to close Vsaid opening, the lock b' need not be disturbedor moved, this being necessary only when the frame B is opened upward.

Having described the nature, construction, and op.

eration of my invention, I will specify what I claim, Y

, ble frame B with and in the con-ld, that it may be and desire to secure by Letters Patent.

1. I claim so connecting and arranging a movable glass fra-mc, B, in ao'ofn-lid, that the same may be depressed and moveddown beneath the lid, and restored to place again, substantially as herein described. 2. I .claim so hinging or connecting said movable flame B with and in the coffin-iid, that the same may be opened upwards and closed' again, substantially as specified-and set forth.

3. I claim so connecting and arranging the movaf moved back beneath the lid, or opened upwards,

substantially and for the purposes shown and described.

- FRANCIS H. HILL.

Witnesses:

W. E. MARES, L. L. OOBURN. 

